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Here is your opportunity to put faces to the names and voices or just to see how beautiful we all are.
Each member of our dedicated team, from the Customer Relations Team through to the Managing Director can be found right here.
If you have any questions or comments please feel free to Contact Us
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Our Sales & Service Team
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Cheryl Morris, Sarah Fulton & Julie Davey make up our all important Service Team collating, packaging and despatching your orders. Not least, they also look after all our image scanning
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full name: Roy Ford
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position: Telephone Sales & Customer Relations
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home town: Gravesend
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favourite artist: Iron Maiden | Wasp | The Macc Lads
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favourite album: Iron Maiden 'Iron Maiden' | Wasp 'The Headless Chicken'
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full name: Luke Heaver
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position: Sales Team
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home town: Longfield
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favourite artists: Flying Lotus, Flako, The Beat, Radiohead, The Smiths, Steely Dan, Bonobo, Skyharbor, Portishead, Bob Marley, PJ Harvey, The Specials, St Germain, Blazo, The Zombies, Gorillaz, Snarky Puppy, Modeselektor, Lapalux,….. I’m really into my underground electronic music at the moment!
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favourite album: Hmm…. A very difficult question indeed – too difficult to answer. My favourite three albums at this moment in time are; Colours Of Jazz 1 & 2 – by Blazo, Lustmore – by Lapalux , Family Dinner – Volume 1 by Snarky Puppy
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What I Like: Music, socialising, Kronenbourg, Cars, the first cup of coffee in the morning, spending time with my friends and family, Amsterdam, coming to work (believe it or not!)
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What I don’t like: Mondays, winter, marzipan, Taylor Swift (if only she had a mute button), rudeness, any generic boy/ girl band, anchovies & French cars.
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full name: Dave Joyce
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position: Responsible for the storage & management of all our stock
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home town: Gravesend
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what i like Movies, most music genres particularly Gospel, Elvis Presley, holidays in the sun and reading books by Dwight L Moody, Evan Roberts, John & Charles Wesley, Charles Finney, George Whitefield, Isaac Watts, Kathryn Kuhlman, Smith Wigglesworth to name but a few. |
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what i don't: Spaghetti, rice pudding, people who exceed the driving limit on roads (they are there for a reason) and hay fever.
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full name: Jason Walsh
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position: Customer Services
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home town: London Town
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favourite artists: Beck, Morrissey/The Smiths, Radiohead, Prince, Elliott Smith, Mercury Rev, Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream
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favourite album: Screamadelica | The Bends
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Our Product Team
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full name: Richard Austin
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position: A member of our buying team and processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Betelgeuse 5
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favourite artist: Tori Amos | Van der Graaf Generator | Ani Di Franco
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favourite album: The Sound 'From The Lions Mouth' | Ozric Tentacles 'Erpland'
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full name: Glen Bushell
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position: Buyer
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home town: Ashford, Kent
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favourite artist:
The Smiths, Nirvana, Jawbreaker, Against Me!, Quicksand, Texas Is The Reason, Nick Drake, Lifetime, Bruce Springsteen, Youth Of Today, Gorilla Biscuits, Joy Division, Descendents, Judge, Sunny Day Real Estate, Cro Mags, Tegan & Sara, Danzig, My Bloody Valentine, Into Another, Seaweed
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favourite album:
Nirvana - In Utero, Jawbreaker - Dear You, Lifetime - Jerseys Best Dancers
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what i like Revelation Records, Shoegaze, Coffee, Telecasters, NYHC, Checkered Shirts, Pizza, Belgium
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what I don't: Spotify, UK festivals, Autotune, Miranda Hart, Simply Red, and Anything the Misfits did without Glenn Danzig
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full name: Tim Card
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Kent.
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likes: Disco, Punk, Kinks, Dusty Springfield, Kraftwerk, Eno, Bowie, Beatles, Soul/Reggae/Ska, Moodymann, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Jonathan Richman, Libertines, Todd Terje, Jake Thackray, John Cooper Clarke...
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dislikes: Olives, flys, Westlife
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full name: Jean-Paul Cartwright
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Gravesend
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favourite artist: Iron Maiden | The Darkness | Godsmack
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favourite album: Alter Bridge 'One Day Remains' | Iron Maiden 'Number Of The Beast'
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full name: Mark Evetts
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position: Specialises in buying our 80's & 90's Indie, Punk & New Wave
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home town: Croydon
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what i like Punk Rock, Association Football, Fergus the Ferret, Profiteroles.
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what i don't: Whiney female vocalists, motor 'sport', America.
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full name: Stephen Franklin
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Sevenoaks (not the affluent part)
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favourite artist: Rush, Gentle Giant, Brand X, Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Sunny Day Real Estate, Planesmistakenforstars (rip), Karnivool, King Crimson, Alice In Chains, Tool, The Clash, Aloha, Jazz-Fusion on vinyl!, The Prog-Archives, The Muffin Man, Michael Moorcock's Elric Saga, 70"s & 80"s horror (Suspiria, The Thing), Vinyl & Real Coffee (together!)
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favourite album: Running out of real coffee, broken turn-tables, grime/garage (or whatever the hell it"s called at the moment), opera, big brother, roadkill, intermittent freeview, breaking guitar strings, cancelled band practices, P.Diddy"s version of Kashmir
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full name: Sharon Sexton
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Kent
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what i like The Stranglers, Ash, Muse, Manics, travel, pandas and Art Deco |
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what i don't: Whistling, Jazz, beards, feet
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full name: Laura Stoneman
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position: Responsible for the adding, ordering and processing of new release product
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what i like Music [Guillemots, Broken Records, Irrepressibles, Arcade Fire, Coldplay], Gigs, Comedy [Kevin Bridges, Russell Kane, Andrew Lawrence, Micky Flanagan, Milton Jones, Sarah Millican, Danny Bhoy to name a few], Travelling, Cinema, Brothers' Toffee Apple Cider and Cake. |
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what i don't: Spicy food, radio playlists (having 5 songs rammed down my ears three times an hour), new indie bands who sound like every other indie band, drunk teenage hooligans taking over nice chilled out festivals. |
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full name: Rich Wilson
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position: Assists the buyers & processes new stock arrivals
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home town: Harlow
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favourite artist: Jazz/Afro/Brazilian, Cardiacs, Suburban Base Records for turning me into an evil vinyl addict
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favourite album: Miles Davis 'Kind Of Blue' |
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full name: Yasuhiko Yashiki
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position: Our Japanese representative, managing our buying throughout Japan & beyond...
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home town: Hiroshima City
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what i like The Dance Of Death by Scaramanga Six, Bipolar Diversion by Jackdaw4 in the meantime. |
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what i don't An outrageous Jap ebayers without having paid a tax from sales once and also live without paying a rent by an allowance from their parent.
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Our IT Team
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full name: Gary Breeze
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position: Senior Software Engineer
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home town: eil Towers
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what i like sex, drugs & rock'n'roll, more of the above |
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what i don't: no sex, drugs & rock'n'roll, more of the above
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full name: Mike Towers
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position: Senior Software Engineer
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home town: Ashford
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favourite artist: Oasis | Meat Loaf
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favourite album: Oasis 'Heathen Chemistry' | Meat Loaf 'Bat Out Of Hell'
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Our Directors
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full name: Cathryn Draper
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position: Company Director and oversees day to day management.
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home town: Kent
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what i like Nick Drake Bryter Layter, Faithless Outrospective. Most Porsche 911's (except silver ones - but the odd 356 Speedster in any colour is very nice). Cafe Del Mar Volume 9 |
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what i don't: Frank Zappa - he makes my eardrums want to burst (Sorry Richard). drum n bass - someone tell me where the rhythm is?
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full name: Julian Thomas
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position: Co-Founder & Company Director
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home town: The Dark Side Of The Moon
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what i like gilmour, lemmy, jazz, beans on toast, yorkshire tea, ch. palmer, real ale, english pubs, motor racing, maserati, morris minor, shotguns, japan, murakami
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what i don't: anything idol, big brother, TV soaps, beetroot, black coffee, alcopops, stella, english pubs abroad, football, austin princess, knives, spain, mills & boon
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full name: Robert Croydon
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position: Co-Founder and Managing Director
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home town: Longfield
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favourite music place: Sunday afternoon on the Terrace at Space, Ibiza
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favourite album: Mylo 'Destoy Rock And Roll' | Simon and Garfunkel 'Best Of'
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